Summary Of Mark O Connell S Notes From An Apocalypse
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Summary of Mark O'Connell's Notes from an Apocalypse
Author: Everest Media,
language: en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date: 2022-06-11T22:59:00Z
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was watching cartoons with my son when I came across an embedded YouTube video that showed the final pathetic tribulations of an emaciated polar bear. The video was shot near an abandoned Inuit village in the northern Canadian tundra, where the bear had strayed in search of food. #2 The world my son was growing up in and the world I was trying to protect him from were constantly colliding with me, and I felt I was failing miserably at both. I was not living up to my duty as a parent. #3 The end of the world is extremely dull. I am fed up with climate change, which is a form of apocalypse, and I am also bored by it. #4 The apocalypse, in both its religious and secular forms, has always been a sudden flash of divine or technological power. We don’t know how to make sense of the current mutated form of the end times, so we just accept it.
Notes from an Apocalypse
'The Book of Revelation with a Bill Bryson touch... At least you'll die laughing' Sunday Telegraph **NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE LATEST APOCALYPSE** Of late, Mark O'Connell has found himself particularly anxious about the end of the world. As things fall apart around him, he sets out to meet the people preparing to survive: environmentalists meditating in remote Scottish forests, billionaires dreaming of life on Mars or a villa in New Zealand, and conspiracy theorists yearning for a lost American idyll. Journeying with him through this landscape of anxiety, we learn just what it takes to make it to the other side.
Adventure Capitalism
Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls “libertarian exit.” Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary capitalism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized exit—seasteads, free private cities, and space colonization—it is also a history of our future.